The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality.

Publication: SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

Publication Date: 01-APR-01

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The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Edited by James J. Fox. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. 204 pp.

This is the fourth edited volume to have emerged from the Comparative Austronesian Project co-ordinated by James Fox at the Australian National University. The interested reader has to address all four publications to establish the main directions of Fox's and his colleagues' thinking, and two of the earlier volumes have been reviewed in this journal (SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, vol. 11, no. 2 [October 1996] and vol. 12, no. 2 [October 1997]). The general volume on The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (1995) surveys the main cultural, linguistic, and historical elements in the origins, definition, transformation, and differentiation of the Austronesian-speaking populations of Asia, the Pacific, and eastern Africa. The first collection published, Inside Austronesian Houses (1993),...

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